This is where I land. Anyone arguing one way or the other tends to make up some arbitrary reason or impose assumptions on the implementation of the language. They are both perfectly fine and logical numbering systems, however since 95% of developers expect a 0-based numbering system, that is what we should use.
This ignores the fact that people use different languages for different purposes. More people use Excel, which is 1-based, than all other languages combined. Should Excel be 0-based because people who use C (a much smaller minority) prefer their language to be 0-based?
